Online Bullying
I can describe how what one person perceives as playful joking and teasing (including ‘banter’) might be experienced by others as bullying
Questions To Ask
- What jokes do you find funny? Can you share an example?
- Do you always find jokes funny? What about your friends, do they always find your jokes funny?
- Do people find the same things funny?
- Is it funny to poke fun at someone else - about their appearance or something they've done or said?
- Have you ever been on the receiving end of a ‘joke’ which you didn't find amusing?
- How did that make you feel?
- What is banter? How does banter differ from bullying?
- Banter can only happen between two people who have the same power. What does that mean?
- How would you know if something is banter?
- If someone was accused of being mean and said ‘It was only a joke!’, does that mean they don’t have to apologise?